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Isn't that pretty clearly described in the first section of the readme? It introduces imporant Chinese cultural elements to a western audience. Shen Yu was a mo
by FooBarWidget 4y ago
Isn't that pretty clearly described in the first section of the readme? It introduces imporant Chinese cultural elements to a western audience. Shen Yu was a monarch who worked for the benefit of the people. The idea that a ruler should work for the benefit of the people (instead of e.g. medieval European ideas of a monarch having been granted legitimacy by God, with no obligation do anything for the people) is a long-standing Chinese value and philosophical view that continues to this day.
- bcatanzaro 4y agoI don’t think it’s obvious. European culture has been dominated for 2000 years by the teachings of Jesus, who said: “Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.” The idea that rulers should serve their people is not unique to any civilization. But my question is actually about the Apache Software Foundation: why would they be invested in long-standing values of Chinese civilization?
- brunoborges 4y ago> But my question is actually about the Apache Software Foundation: why would they be invested in long-standing values of Chinese civilization? It's just a project name. And the name was not chosen by ASF, rather accepted by them as per their terms: https://infra.apache.org/project-names.html https://infra.apache.org/project-names.html
- chillfox 4y agoPresumably because organisations are just groups of people and in this case a bunch of Chinese people contributed to the code. The top contributor is located in Beijing according to their GitHub profile.